Two-page spread covered in script of brown ink

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
Manuscript of “Adventures of Ernest Alembert”
1830
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

Manuscript of “Adventures of Ernest Alembert”

Charlotte Brontë had just turned 14 when she wrote the “Adventures of Ernest Alembert,” and she was already a hardworking writer. She and her four siblings (Anne, Emily, Maria, and Branwell, the only boy; another sister had died in 1825) grew up in a solitary household in rural Yorkshire. They made up their own countries with heroes and histories, and wrote stories and newspapers that they illustrated with drawings and paintings. “Ernest Alembert,” long on atmosphere and short on event, is a dreamy tale of its protagonist’s adventures in the land of the fairies.

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